Word: rouget
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin to speak at a dance given for new Conservative voters. When Mr. Smithers arrived, Conservative couples were revolving on the floor to the strains of "Sonny Boy" Suddenly inspired, Mr. Smithers stepped to the platform, asked the bandmaster to repeat the selection. Then-even as the French patriot, Rouget de Lisle, is supposed to have improvised the "Marseillaise"; upon a cafe table top-Mr. Smithers is supposed to have improvised verses, of which the following is a sample: When there are grey skies We don't mind the grey skies, You make them blue, Stanley Boy. Though foes...
...Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) author of La Marseillaise employed similar tactics when arraigned before a French jury on a capital charge. "Frenchmen!" he cried, "Hear my defense: I am guilty, but I am the author of La Marseillaise...